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Illustration: children under a tree

Family History: Children’s Pastimes and Toys (1700 to 1950), Part 2

By Jessica Edwards on May 18, 2022

In this article, Jessica Edwards concludes her introduction to a new series exploring the pastimes and toys our ancestors enjoyed when they were children... (Read More)

Illustration: children under a tree

Family History: Children’s Pastimes and Toys (1700 to 1950), Part 1

By Jessica Edwards on May 17, 2022

In this article, Jessica Edwards begins a new series exploring the pastimes and toys our ancestors enjoyed when they were children... (Read More)

Photo: grave marker at Chico Cemetery, near Avondale in Pueblo County, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Genealogy Tip: Finding Children Who Died Young, Part II

By Katie Rebecca Garner on July 27, 2021

In this article, Katie Garner concludes her two-part series giving tips how to find information about children in your family’s history who died young... (Read More)

Photo: grave marker at Chico Cemetery, near Avondale in Pueblo County, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Genealogy Tip: Finding Children Who Died Young, Part I

By Katie Rebecca Garner on July 26, 2021

In this article, Katie Garner begins a two-part series giving tips how to find information about children in your family’s history who died young... (Read More)

Photo: third grader at the Elmer Avenue Elementary School in Schenectady, New York. Credit: Philip Bonn; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Looking Back in Time: Letters Children Wrote during the 1918 Flu Pandemic

By Mary Harrell-Sesniak on April 30, 2020

Mary Harrell-Sesniak finds letters children wrote during the 1918 Flu Pandemic to, hopefully, bring a smile to our readers in this tough time... (Read More)

Photo: girl writing; the open notebook is her personal speller, 1943. Credit: Philip Bonn; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Genealogy Discovery: Letters Written by Children in Newspapers

By Mary Harrell-Sesniak on July 18, 2018

In this article, Mary Harrell-Sesniak searches old newspapers to find letters that children wrote to the editor, filled with family history information... (Read More)

Illustration: children under a tree

Researching Kids with Vintage Newspaper Ads of 100 Years Ago

By Mary Harrell-Sesniak on June 11, 2015

In this article, Mary Harrell-Sesniak shows how newspaper advertisements offer insights into the stories of our ancestors’ lives, including children... (Read More)

Painting: “Happy Christmas” by Johansen Viggo, 1891

Kids Holiday Gift Ideas: Craft Projects from Newspapers

By Mary Harrell-Sesniak on December 16, 2014

In this article, Mary Harrell-Sesniak searches old newspapers to find craft projects our ancestors might have made, such as paper airplanes and dolls... (Read More)

Remembering the Young: Children’s Death Records in the News

By Thomas Jay Kemp on October 17, 2014

I was reading this old newspaper and noticed that obituary after obituary was for young children. So many reports of very young children dying early deaths in this old newspaper article: Martha Banks, aged 1 year, 11 months and 2 days Arthur Lincoln Vaughan, aged 6 months and 12 days Caroline E. Hein, aged... (Read More)

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